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Originally Posted by Naena
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it seems like it would be pretty dull if at the end of it all it was just TMO farming all the raid mobs and nobody else getting to do much of anything.
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I think that the mindset of this quote is the issue with most of the people who complain about the "raid scene" or "endgame" on p99.
How so, you ask? How many hours per week do you think TMO spends in direct preparation for or actually fighting raid mobs? Half a dozen dragons in VP, VS, trak, gore, sev, talendor, fay, CT, draco, inny, maestro, vox, naggy. That's only like 20 spawns per week. Even a person who does every single one of them probably only spends like 15 hours per week "raiding." But probably 14 of those hours are buffing, running to the right place, getting ported, hammering, recharging mallets/hats/nets/slowstone ambers, etc. Even when you don't zerg a mob down, it only takes a couple minutes to kill it.
Now split those mobs up over TMO, FE, BDA, Taken, Divinity, Europa. Each guild experiences a total of, let's call it 3, hours per week of "raiding" with only like 10 minutes of actual combat. Most people don't show up for everything. You end up with the average person getting to spend like 1 whole hour per week "raiding" ... just a few minutes per week actually spent fighting some legendary dragon/god/undead dude/whatever.
Why is everyone so fucking pissy about missing out on a few minutes per week of an admittedly fun activity? Because they don't think about this. They don't realize that if a rotation were put in place, they would actually see so little action. They think that a rotation (or even just TMO sharing stuff) is some miracle fix and that the game is going to be heaven-on-earth if only they could "raid" with their guild.
Bullshit.
People need to stop whining about stuff that they haven't put much thought into and realize that they are missing something (experiencing these fights, basically), but that that something isn't that much (a few minutes of combat per week, if "raiding" were actually split up amongst most/all of the interested and capable p99 guilds). Go have fun playing your 60 in a planes raid, or helping your guildies get epics, or being nice to lowbies who are trying to xp. Or level an alt. Or level another alt. Or sponsor a giveaway. Or do something challenging even if there isn't a point to it beyond a challenge sometimes being a hell of a lot of fun. Or join TMO if you really want to "raid" that badly. Or make your own guild and topple TMO. Or get the hell out of here!
Yeah. I'm deeply immersed. No shit
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